4 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "physics for beginners, and the maths that goes with it" - Problem: How do I find time to learn stuff like this when I need to know stuff like this before I can expand time enough so I have time to learn it?
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6 month ago
philgyford : How to Learn Math and Physics - Recommendations of books to take you through the main topics of physics and maths. Oh for much, much more time.
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : 'Cool Cash' card confusion - Manchester Evening News - Apparently, the consumers of lottery scratch cards in the UK aren't particularly good at maths. Whodvethunkit? "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." [via] #
deusx : 'Cool Cash' card confusion - News - Manchester Evening News - "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it."
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plasticbag : Venn diagram on Wikipedia - Examine, if you will, the distinct differences between Euler and Venn diagrams and in the future use the terms appropriately in order to impress and confound your friends and seem cool in mathematical company...
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32 month ago
gleuschk : The Science Creative Quarterly » A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO THE TOILET SEAT PROBLEM - this analysis should settle the toilet seat controversey for once and for all - if John and Marsha are mathematicians.
Rod Begbie : The Science Creative Quarterly » A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO THE TOILET SEAT PROBLEM - Hooray! I've been looking for this article for years, but couldn't remember its name. "I expect that this analysis should settle the toilet seat controversey for once and for all - if John and Marsha are mathematicians." [via] #
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36 month ago
plasticbag : BBC News presents a multiple choice maths quiz so you can see if you've got any brains left - Turns out there are some things I don't remember from school maths, but not that much...
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39 month ago
plasticbag : On Bees, six-dimensional manifolds and a peculiar sensitivity to Quarks - Another one found via Mr Webb of interconnected.org - this time on the waggle dance that bees do to communicate
jkottke : Researching quantum honeybees - Can bees detect quantum fields and use them to find food?
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40 month ago
plasticbag : Wholemovement - A site about the art and geometry of folding circles by Bradford Handsen-Smith - Wonderful origami site about folder paper circles - specifically 9 inch paper places. Fascinating and beautiful...
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